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  • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario talks about her new book, Enrique's Journey, which traces the path of a young boy from Honduras to the U.S. as he reunites with his mother. Nazario found that 48,000 children, some as young as 7, make the journey alone each year.
  • A new Palestinian Parliament is sworn in, with Hamas, the militant Islamist party, asked to form a new government. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appealed for a continued truce and peace negotiations with Israel.
  • Mestre Joao Grande is a 78-year-old master of the black Brazilian martial art called capoeira -- a rich blend of music, dance and ritualized combat. Enslaved Africans brought the roots of capoeira with them when they came to South America in the 1600s.
  • The music of the movies is one of Andy Trudeau's specialties. His annual look at Oscar-nominated scores begins with Alberto Iglesias' The Constant Gardener and John Williams' Memoirs of a Geisha.
  • In some Eastern Ukraine cities, volunteers risk their lives to deliver food and medicine to those afraid to leave their homes because of constant shelling.
  • Yesterday, 10 people were killed and three wounded in a mass shooting in a Buffalo supermarket that appears to have been racially motivated. The shooter is in custody.
  • In 2004, singer and songwriter Josh Rouse recorded a farewell record to Nashville — and to the United States. He picked up his life and moved to a small town on Spain's Mediterranean Coast. A new CD resulted.
  • Endangered Florida panthers are being crowded out of their habitat in Florida. Some suggest bringing the panthers to the Ozarks, where they once lived. But Arkansas wildlife officials aren't crazy about the idea, saying the panthers would be a threat.
  • There are signs that the trend toward outsourcing call center jobs to low-wage countries like India may be slowing down. Research shows that some call centers are most effective when staffed by Americans.
  • Ayesha Rascoe talks with Buffalo, N.Y., mayor Byron W. Brown about yesterday's deadly supermarket attack, and what he wants to happen for his community.
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